Today we're pleased to reintroduce the Maine Mural Podcast. After a long hiatus, the podcast returns to bring you readings of two recent Pine & Roses articles, Augusta Chipotle Workers Speak Out by Wil Thieme, and America's Desensitization to Gun Violence by T....

Hugging and supporting one another through the hardest moments, workers called for more unionization drives at Chipotle locations across the country.

We are re-running this piece from April in light of the on-going attack on abortion rights, and Maine DSA's growing new campaign to expose and put pressure on Maine's Crisis Pregnancy Centers to close up shop. As the article below will make clear, these fake abortion...

Today we are here for bodily autonomy. We are here for solidarity in protecting, saving, and revitalizing human rights that have been taken away from us and our loved ones. It is past the point of posting something on social media and emailing someone who tells you anything you want to hear for a vote and some cash. Today we put ourselves in the streets.

On Saturday, June 4 the Maine State Council of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM or simply “the Machinists'') hosted their Biennial Conference in South Portland.  The conference featured twelve keynote speakers, including US...

Many column inches have been dedicated to the recent food truck controversy on the Eastern Prom of Portland. The ‘debate’ is framed in traditional neo-liberal terms, with free-market entrepreneurs (the food truck owners) hustling for a living and trying to make a buck...

Maine DSA’s Campaign for a Livable Portland filed paperwork with the City of Portland to pursue four citizen initiatives for November 2022. These referenda are a bid to make the city that we love and reside in livable: not only for business owners, not only for landlords, developers, and seasonal residents, not only for the 1%, not only for tourists. Portland must be livable for Portland’s workers, Portland’s tenants, Portland’s families and Portland’s most vulnerable— the entire working class that calls Portland home.

Ten people in Buffalo, NY on May 14. Twenty-one people in Uvalde, TX, including nineteen children, on May 24. Most people will recognize the events alluded to here: recent mass shootings in the United States. We know about these two events because they received...

As Pine & Roses works to produce new episodes of the Maine Mural Podcast in coming months, we thought we'd dive into earlier episodes to bring you this interview with Lisa from Mid-Coast Maine. She discusses her family's escape from fascist Europe, an uncle who...

Earlier this week, in broad daylight, 44-year-old cyclist Christina Holt was killed in a collision with a motor vehicle in downtown Portland. This continues a tragic trend in Maine, as well as nationwide, of a rapid increase in pedestrian deaths, which tripled in the...